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Hello, I’m new to this site. I found this fossil in my backyard. Is it a claw or bone? thank you for your help in advance !!!! Emilie

This is an unusual geological hazard. The start of the San Andreas fault is hit by the 'slow one': Sunken sinkhole of bubbling mud is moving across Salton Sea destroying everything in its path. The Daily Mail, November 2, 2018 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6343583/The-bubbling-stinking-mud-pool-cause-chaos-San-Andreas-fault.html A San Andreas fault mystery: The 'slow-moving disaster' in an area where the Big One is feared by Alejandra Reyes-Velarde and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2018 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-niland-mud-pot-20181101-story.html A Gurgling Mud Pool Is Creeping Across Southern California Like a Geologic Poltergeist By Laura Geggel, Live Science, November 2, 2018 https://www.livescience.com/63998-mud-pool-creeping-across-california.html Geyser Emergency Project - Fact Sheet http://www.icphd.org/media/managed/newsrelease/Geyser_Emergency_Project_Fact_Sheet.pdf Someone needs to to tell the reporters and officials that mud pots / springs are not "geysers." Some papers: Lynch, D.K. and Hudnut, K.W., 2008. The Wister mud pot lineament: Southeastward extension or abandoned strand of the San Andreas fault?. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 98(4), pp.1720-1729. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/12061/1/LYNbssa08.pdf https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/98/4/1720/341930 Mazzini, A., Svensen, H., Etiope, G., Onderdonk, N. and Banks, D., 2011. Fluid origin, gas fluxes and plumbing system in the sediment-hosted Salton Sea Geothermal System (California, USA). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 205(3-4), pp.67-83. http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Mazzini_JVGR_11.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377027311001405 Onderdonk, N., Mazzini, A., Shafer, L. and Svensen, H., 2011. Controls on the geomorphic expression and evolution of gryphons, pools, and caldera features at hydrothermal seeps in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, southern California. Geomorphology, 130(3-4), pp.327-342. http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Onderdonk_GeoM_2011_Salton_seeps.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X11001838 Yours, Paul H.